User "Dantman" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r103893.

Full URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/103893#c26406
Commit summary:

Implement a number of namespace related equals functions:
* MWNamespace::equals to test equivalence of two namespaces (forward compatible 
with any changes we may make like introducing namespace keys like 'USER')
* MWNamespace::subjectEquals to test equivalence of the subject of two 
namespaces e.g.: MWNamespace::subjectEquals( NS_USER, $ns ); instead of testing 
for equivalence to both NS_USER and NS_USER_TALK
* Title::inNamespace to use instead of $title->getNamespace() == NS_???
* Title::inNamespaces for use like $title->inNamespaces( NS_USER, NS_PROJECT ) 
when you only care if it's in one of a number of namespaces (also accepts an 
array)
* Title::hasSubjectNamespace for use instead of testing for equivalence to both 
the subject and talk such as NS_USER and NS_USER_TALK.

Include phpunit tests for all this new code, and also add some tests for some 
existing code.

Comment:

getNamespaceObj was the one name I could come up with too. Though, TBH that 
'-Obj' pattern feels like that kind that extension developers will consider a 
little ugly and potentially decide to just opt to keeping getNamespace() 
without ever bothering to even start using the new interface in their code.

I almost wish we would have started with a bad naming scheme like getNS. If we 
were using a name like that we could make use of that as an excuse to switch to 
a better name like getNamespace for the new api... but we're not. I can't quite 
think of any name nicer than getNamespace.

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